RogueAI

Can it play chess?

There is some truth to that. I don't like Facebook throwing money around in the election like that. It favors me now, because I'm liberal leaning, but...

You're right, that was uncalled for. Sorry. Doesn't Trump's stolen election BS bother you a lot though? You don't believe that crap, right?

Every time we bail out a bank, we should levy a 2% tax on everyone with assets over a hundred million.

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I can see why no one takes you seriously.

Dodging drafts may be smart, but it's not brave. And how did you fell when Trump feel in love with Kim Jong Un?

Was that before or after he fell in love with him? Brave = dodging the draft because of bonespurs?

Unless there are immaterial factors that go into decision making, like conscious states. I'm not convinced that if we evolve the system forward, we'll...

You can't improve on the classics. “Whatever happens, we have got The Maxim gun, and they have not.”

Those conversations are amazing.

Do you think the election was stolen?

I can't believe the guy who founded Trump University could be on the wrong side of the law.

IT’S TIME!!! WE ARE A NATION IN STEEP DECLINE, BEING LED INTO WORLD WAR III BY A CROOKED POLITICIAN WHO DOESN’T EVEN KNOW HE’S ALIVE, BUT WHO IS SURRO...

I don't think Trump can win again. Except the Dems are staking a lot on helping Ukraine, and Putin might just decide to escalate things in an attempt ...

https://warontherocks.com/2023/03/how-to-think-about-bakhmut-and-a-ukrainian-spring-offensive/

Lol.

I think you're wrong there. I think Trump would push for a cease-fire and would threaten to cut off U.S. military and financial aid. And he would get ...

Trump is running as an isolationist who will end the war. He's perfectly capable of hanging Ukraine out to dry, and cutting off the supply of arms and...

Why do you assume reality is such that there exist external objects? I get why, I guess, but I think that assumption has to be argued for. How would c...

Wouldn't the interpretation have to be done by something with a mind?

Doesn't that imply that a discerner is a necessary condition for "discernible differences"? Or do you mean there are differences that are, potentially...

I don't know much about universals. My thoughts on this are very preliminary. I would like to see Wayfarer take this on. I think you've done an excell...

No, looking at a computer doesn't cause any changes to the computer. However, observing the output of the computational process and attaching signific...

Exactly

Bylaw made the point I was trying to make better than me. Indeed, I would say the vast majority of what we think we know about the world comes from an...

Tom: Suppose I'm a research scientist you know really well, and I claim I have a guy I've given the ESP card test to 100 times and I say he aces it ev...

Of course it is. One eyewitness might not be enough to nail a suspect but 20 eye witnesses all agreeing on the same appearance is MASSIVE confirmation...

Do we have good reason to deny all these anecdotes? I would say no.

Yes, and that "more" could be other anecdotal information. It's evidence and evidence can confirm or disconfirm a theory. There's no reason, in princi...

I can think of a scenario: suppose you wake up and everyone- I mean the whole planet- is talking about how, for about five minutes, the stars all move...

Right. A bundle of sticks that looks like this: VIII with no one to observe it is a bundle of sticks. It can't ever be more than that without some min...

Why beyond anecdote? If a friend calls and says your house is on fire do you dismiss it because it's anecdotal information? What if a trusted friend s...

I'm looking at it more this way: without an observer, how is there anything other than a change in physical states? I don't think you can add on "comp...

No, I'm saying that minds are a necessary condition for computation. IOW, some mind has to observe the computational process in order for computation ...

A computer is something that computes. My point has been that there are no computers in a mindless universe.

This.

Is there computation in a mindless universe?

Russia's buddies are Iran and China. America's allies are the great democracies of Europe. Is there any question who the bad guys are here? Would any ...

Yes, I don't understand how anyone could argue otherwise.

Oh, I just realized you're the Isaac from the Ukraine thread.

It's not as accepted in polite society, but there are still plenty of kids being raised in racist households. The culture itself is still very racist....

If only that were true.

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https://www.19fortyfive.com/2023/02/putin-has-no-chance-to-win-the-war-in-ukraine/

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Well said!

It's not up to black people to stop systemic racism against black people.

Yeah, clearly there's tension in the relationship between blacks and whites. As members of the ruling majority (and historical oppressers of blacks), ...